Tort law in America : an intellectual history / by White, G. Edward, PALCI EBSCO books

Table of Contents: “…Intellectual Origins of Torts in America --…”
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Tort law and the construction of change : studies in the inevitability of history / by Abraham, Kenneth S., 1946-, White, G. Edward, Ebook Central

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The epistemology of the civil trial and the rise of modern tort liability -- Conceptualizing tort law : the continuous (and continuing) struggle -- The problem of the dignitary torts -- The First Amendment and the constitutionalization of tort liability -- Torts without names, new torts, and the future of liability for intangible harm -- Conclusion.…”
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Tort law and the construction of change : studies in the inevitability of history / by Abraham, Kenneth S., 1946-, White, G. Edward, ProQuest Ebook Subscriptions

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The epistemology of the civil trial and the rise of modern tort liability -- Conceptualizing tort law : the continuous (and continuing) struggle -- The problem of the dignitary torts -- The First Amendment and the constitutionalization of tort liability -- Torts without names, new torts, and the future of liability for intangible harm -- Conclusion.…”
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A history of tort law 1900-1950 / by Mitchell, Paul, 1972-, PALCI EBSCO books

Subjects: “…Torts England History 20th century.…”
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The historical foundations of Grotius' analysis of delict / by Sampson, Joe, ProQuest Ebook Subscriptions

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Rethinking the reasonable person : an egalitarian reconstruction of the objective standard / by Moran, Mayo, Oxford Scholarship Online

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The division of wrongs : a historical comparative study by Descheemaeker, Eric, 1977-, Oxford Scholarship Online

Subjects: “…Torts History.…”
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The great Hartford circus fire : creative settlement of mass disasters / by Cohn, Henry S., 1945-

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A history of civil litigation : political and economic perspectives / by Vandall, Frank J., Oxford Scholarship Online

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Closed ranks : the Whitehurst case in post-civil rights Montgomery / by Dickson, Foster, PALCI EBSCO books

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A historical introduction to the law of obligations. by Ibbetson, D. J. Ibbetson, David J., Oxford Scholarship Online

Table of Contents: “…Trespass, Trespass on the Case, and the Medieval Law of Tort. 4. The Substantive Law of Torts. 5. The Substantive Law of Contract -- pt. 2. …”
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English common law in the age of Mansfield / by Oldham, James, PALCI EBSCO books

Table of Contents: “…Mansfield and the Court of King's bench -- Commerce and contract -- Crime and tort -- Status and property.…”
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Sovereign necropolis : the politics of death in semi-colonial Siam / by Pearson, Trais, 1979-

Table of Contents: “…Bad death -- Indemnity & identity -- Treaty port tort -- Accidental metaphysics -- Morbid subjects -- Incisions & inscriptions -- Conclusion -- Epilogue : spirits in a material world.…”
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American legal history : a very short introduction / by White, G. Edward

Table of Contents: “…The legal history of Indian tribes -- Law and African-American slavery -- Rights of property and their regulation -- Law and entrepreneurship -- Criminal law -- Law and domestic relations -- Civil injuries and the law of torts -- Legal education and the legal profession.…”
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Private property and abuse of rights in Victorian England : the story of Edward Pickles and the Bradford water supply / by Taggart, Michael, Oxford Scholarship Online

Table of Contents: “…Prologue -- Bradford and its water supply -- Coal, stone, and water at East Many Wells Farm -- To court -- Property and statutory interpretation -- Property and water -- Abuse of rights -- Malice and the law of torts -- Epilogue: Pickles and the public/private law divide.…”
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The accidental republic : crippled workingmen, destitute widows, and the remaking of American law / by Witt, John Fabian, ACLS Humanities Ebook

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Crippled workingmen, destitute widows, and the crisis of free labor -- The dilemmas of classical tort law -- The cooperative insurance movement -- From markets to managers -- Widows, actuaries, and the logics of social insurance -- The passion of William Werner -- The accidental republic -- Conclusion.…”
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A history of American law / by Friedman, Lawrence M. (Lawrence Meir), 1930-, Oxford Scholarship Online

Table of Contents: “…The republic of bees -- Outposts of the law : the frontier and the civil law fringe -- Law and the economy : 1776-1850 -- The law of personal status : wives, paupers, and slaves -- An American law of property -- The law of commerce and trade -- Crime and punishment : and a footnote on tort -- The bar and its works -- Blood and gold : some main themes in the law in the last half of the nineteenth century -- Judges and courts : 1850-1900 -- Procedure and practice : an age of reform -- The land and other property -- Administrative law and regulation of business -- Torts -- The underdogs : 1850-1900 -- The law of corporations -- Commerce, labor, and taxation -- Crime and punishment -- The legal profession : the training and literature of law -- The legal profession : at work -- Leviathan comes of age -- The growth of the law -- Internal legal culture in the twentieth century : lawyers, judges, and law books -- Regulation, welfare, and the rise of environmental law -- Crime and punishment in the twentieth century -- Family law in the twentieth century.…”
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Baptized in PCBs : race, pollution, and justice in an all-American town / by Spears, Ellen Griffith, PALCI EBSCO books

Table of Contents: “…Abbreviations -- Introduction: Toxic Knowledge -- The Model City : A Romance of the New South -- The War for Chemical Supremacy -- Monsanto's Move "Down South" -- A Technological High Command -- War in a Time of Peace -- The Nature of the Poison -- The Death of Aroclors -- Challenging the Green Dragon -- Contaminated Bodies, Contaminated Soil -- Witnessing the Explosion in Toxic Torts -- Aftershocks -- Epilogue: Remodeling the Model City.…”
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From House of Lords to Supreme Court : judges, jurists and the process of judging / by PALCI EBSCO books

Table of Contents: “…Boland, the House of Lords, the Law Commission and the role of consensus / Elizabeth Cooke -- 'Inconsiderate alterations in our laws' : legislative reversal of Supreme Court decisions / James Lee -- (Dis)owning the convention in the law of tort / Jenny Steele -- Keeping their heads above water? …”
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Up in smoke : from legislation to litigation in tobacco politics / by Derthick, Martha, Sage Knowledge

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